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Ahead of 2023 Elections, INEC begins cleaning up of voters register

...... says new registrants will collect PVC soon

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March 28, 2022
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Lagos – Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says ongoing robust cleaning up of voters register is responsible for the delay in the production of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for new registrants.

Yakubu disclosed this in his keynote address at the opening ceremony of a five-day Induction Retreat for the new National Commissioners of INEC in Lagos on Monday.

According to him, the burden to conduct free, fair, credible, acceptable and inclusive elections is upon the commission, hence the need for each commissioners to be ethical and knowledgeable.

Yakubu said: “The Commission is encouraged by the response of citizens to the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise.

“Recently, the Commission devolved the physical registration beyond our state and local government offices nationwide.

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“Millions of Nigerians have registered so far and we have been giving weekly updates of the progress of the exercise for the last nine months.

“The Commission is aware that new registrants as well as those who applied for transfer or replacement of the Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs) would like to know when the cards will be available for collection.

“The reason why we have not made the PVCs available is because of the robust system of cleaning up the registration to ensure that only genuine registrants are added to the voters register using the Automatic Bimodal Identification System (ABIS) for fingerprint and facial clean up.”

The chairman, who noted that INEC had completed the ABIS for the first and second quarter of the CVR, said that the commission will next week announce detailed dates and locations for the collection of PVCs.

On the importance of the retreat, Yakubu, who noted that INEC now had full complement of 12 National Commissioners, said the retreat would afford the new commissioners to learn a lot, especially with the coming to force of the new Electoral Act 2022.

According to him, the commission has introduced a number of new innovations that it needs to perfect ahead of the general election, hence the need to continuously engage with citizens and stakeholders.

“However, while these innovations and stakeholder engagements are critical to preparations for elections, we should bear in mind that equally critical to the conduct of successful elections is our credibility as election managers: our impartiality, dogged adherence to rules, commitment to the sanctity of the ballot and sound knowledge of the electoral process.

“This retreat is important, especially coming shortly after we released the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election in which party primaries are scheduled to commence next week and end in the first week of June, that is between April 4 and June,” he added.

Yakubu reassured Nigerians of INEC’s commitment to credible polls in 2023, saying that the commission had concluded work on the Strategic Plan 2022-2026 and Election Project Plan for the 2023 General Election.

According to him, very soon, INEC will finalise work on the Regulations and Guidelines for elections taking into consideration the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.

“The three documents will be published and presented to the public next month, April.

“May I also seize this opportunity to reassure Nigerians that we have identified the challenges associated with the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) during voter accreditation,” Yakubu said.

He said that in the recent bye-elections in six constituencies in four states of the federation across four geo-political zones, the BVAS functioned optimally in rural, sub-urban and urban areas of Cross River, Imo, Ondo and Plateau.

The INEC chairman said that the commission received no complaints from voters and no reports of glitches from observers in these bye-elections.

He said that INEC would continue to perfect the system in the forthcoming bye-elections and the end of tenure governorship elections in Ekiti on June 18 and Osun State on July 16.

Yakubu said: “The commission is also working on the distribution of voters to polling units across the country following the successful expansion of voter access to polling units.

“Very soon, we will roll out the plan for achieving a more balanced distribution of voters to the polling units.

“As always, we will engage with stakeholders across the board to ensure a more participatory approach so that the exercise is seamless and voters will have a more pleasant experience at polling units on Election Day.”

Speaking, Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education said that the training became important because some of the new national commissioners were coming from different backgrounds and walks of life.

“It is important for them to know the workings of the commission and ethical issues.

“We have no time to waste, they need to move to the states where they supervise to get acquainted with the operations of the commission especially at the state and the local government levels,” Okoye said.

In his goodwill message, Mr Seray Jah, Nigeria Country Director, International Foundation for Electoral System (IFES) said that since 1998, IFES had remained a strategic partner with INEC and had offered technical support on key areas.

Jah said that IFES had supported in strategic planning, election project plans, electoral operations, the inclusion of marginalised groups and technically training on core electoral thematic areas, saying the collaboration had positively contributed to INEC’s ability to conduct credible elections.

Earlier in his welcome address, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Lagos State, said that INEC as the gate-keeper of democracy could not but be seen to always be striving to surpass the standard it had set for itself over time.

Agbaje said: “Though we may feel (and correctly so) that we are still in the Green Zone of preparations for next year’s polls, we may soon discover that time is no longer on our side if the right things are not done at the right time.

“Election management is now a knowledge-based ventures.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training has in attendance all INEC national commissioners, directors and resource persons such as former INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Mega, the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Ghana, Dr Kwadwo Afari–Gyan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Development, Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim. (NAN/shadanpamanews/vitalnews)

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